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DC Rao

Professor of Biostatistics, Professor of Biostatistics in Genetics, Professor of Mathematics, Professor of Biostatistics in Psychiatry

 https://orcid.org/0009-0006-8538-2141

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    1970 …2026

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    Genes, lifestyle, and their interactions in cardiovascular disease

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    • cellSTAAR: incorporating single-cell-sequencing-based functional data to boost power in rare variant association testing of noncoding regions

      NHLBI Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed) Consortium, Feb 2026, In: Nature Methods. 23, 2, p. 338-349 12 p.

      Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

    • Genome-wide gene-sleep interaction study identifies novel lipid loci in 732,564 participants

      Noordam, R., Wang, W., Nagarajan, P., Wang, H., Brown, M. R., Bentley, A. R., Hui, Q., Kraja, A. T., Morrison, J. L., O'Connel, J. R., Lee, S., Schwander, K., Bartz, T. M., de las Fuentes, L., Feitosa, M. F., Guo, X., Hanfei, X., Harris, S. E., Huang, Z. & Kals, M. & 129 others, Lefevre, C., Mangino, M., Milaneschi, Y., van der Most, P. J., Pacheco, N. L., Palmer, N. D., Rao, V., Rauramaa, R., Sun, Q., Tabara, Y., Vojinovic, D., Wang, Y., Weiss, S., Yang, Q., Zhao, W., Zhu, W., Ansari, M. A. Y., Aschard, H., Anugu, P., Assimes, T. L., Attia, J., Baker, L. D., Ballantyne, C., Bazzano, L., Boerwinkle, E., Cade, B., Chen, H. H., Chen, W., Ida Chen, Y. D., Chen, Z., Cho, K., De Anda-Duran, I., Dimitrov, L., Do, A., Edwards, T., Faquih, T., Hingorani, A., Fisher-Hoch, S. P., Gaziano, J. M., Gharib, S. A., Giri, A., Ghanbari, M., Grabe, H. J., Graff, M., Charles Gu, C., He, J., Heikkinen, S., Hixson, J., Ho, Y. L., Hood, M. M., Houghton, S. C., Karvonen-Gutierrez, C. A., Kawaguchi, T., Kilpeläinen, T. O., Komulainen, P., Lin, H. J., Linchangco, G. V., Luik, A. I., Ma, J., Meigs, J. B., McCormick, J. B., Menni, C., Nolte, I. M., Norris, J. M., Petty, L. E., Polikowsky, H. G., Raffield, L. M., Rich, S. S., Riha, R. L., Russ, T. C., Ruiz-Narvaez, E. A., Sitlani, C. M., Smith, J. A., Snieder, H., Sofer, T., Shen, B., Tang, J., Taylor, K. D., Teder-Laving, M., Triatin, R., Tsai, M. Y., Völzke, H., Westerman, K. E., Xia, R., Yao, J., Young, K. L., Zhang, R., Zonderman, A. B., Zhu, X., Below, J. E., Cox, S. R., Evans, M., Fornage, M., Fox, E. R., Franceschini, N., Harlow, S. D., Holliday, E., Ikram, M. A., Kelly, T., Lakka, T. A., Lawlor, D. A., Li, C., Liu, C. T., Mägi, R., Manning, A. K., Matsuda, F., Morrison, A. C., Nauck, M., North, K. E., Penninx, B. W. J. H., Province, M. A., Psaty, B. M., Rotter, J. I., Spector, T. D., Wagenknecht, L. E., van Dijk, K. W., Jaquish, C. E., Wilson, P. W. F., Peyser, P. A., Munroe, P. B., de Vries, P. S., Gauderman, W. J., Sun, Y. V., Chen, H., Miller, C. L., Winkler, T. W., Rao, D. C., Redline, S. & van Heemst, D., Jan 2026, In: Atherosclerosis. 412, 120603.

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    • Large-scale blood pressure GWAS accounting for gene-depression interactions in 564,680 individuals from diverse populations

      Lee, S., Miller, C. L., Bentley, A. R., Brown, M. R., Nagarajan, P., Noordam, R., Morrison, J. L., Schwander, K., Westerman, K., Kho, M., Kraja, A. T., de Vries, P. S., Ammous, F., Aschard, H., Bartz, T. M., Do, A., Dupont, C. T., Feitosa, M. F., Gudmundsdottir, V. & Guo, X. & 129 others, Harris, S. E., Hikino, K., Huang, Z., Lefevre, C., Lyytikäinen, L. P., Milaneschi, Y., Nardone, G. G., Santin, A., Schmidt, H., Shen, B., Sofer, T., Sun, Q., Tan, Y. A., Tang, J., Thériault, S., van der Most, P. J., Ware, E. B., Weiss, S., Xing, W. Y., Yu, C., Zhao, W., Ansari, M. A. Y., Anugu, P., Attia, J. R., Bazzano, L. A., Bis, J. C., Breyer, M., Cade, B., Chen, G., Collins, S., Corley, J., Davies, G., Dörr, M., Du, J., Edwards, T. L., Faquih, T., Faul, J. D., Fohner, A. E., Fretts, A. M., Gangireddy, S., Gepner, A., Graff, M. E., Hofer, E., Homuth, G., Hood, M. M., Jie, X., Kähönen, M., Kardia, S. L. R., Karvonen-Gutierrez, C. A., Launer, L. J., Levy, D., Maheshwari, M., Martin, L. W., Matsuda, K., McNeil, J. J., Nolte, I. M., Okochi, T., Raffield, L. M., Raitakari, O. T., Risch, L., Risch, M., Roux, A. D., Ruiz-Narvaez, E. A., Russ, T. C., Saito, T., Schreiner, P. J., Scott, R. J., Shikany, J., Smith, J. A., Snieder, H., Spedicati, B., Tai, E. S., Taylor, A. M., Taylor, K. D., Tesolin, P., van Dam, R. M., Wang, R., Wenbin, W., Xie, T., Yao, J., Young, K. L., Zhang, R., Zonderman, A. B., Concas, M. P., Conen, D., Cox, S. R., Evans, M. K., Fox, E. R., de las Fuentes, L., Giri, A., Girotto, G., Grabe, H. J., Gu, C., Gudnason, V., Harlow, S. D., Holliday, E., Jost, J. B., Lacaze, P., Lee, S., Lehtimäki, T., Li, C., Liu, C. T., Morrison, A. C., North, K. E., Penninx, B. W. J. H., Peyser, P. A., Province, M. M., Psaty, B. M., Redline, S., Rosendaal, F. R., Rotimi, C. N., Rotter, J. I., Schmidt, R., Sim, X., Terao, C., Weir, D. R., Zhu, X., Franceschini, N., O’Connell, J. R., Jaquish, C. E., Wang, H., Manning, A., Munroe, P. B., Rao, D. C., Chen, H., Gauderman, W. J., Bierut, L. J., Winkler, T. W. & Fornage, M., Apr 9 2026, In: Human Genetics and Genomics Advances. 7, 2, 100566.

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    • A large-scale genome-wide study of gene-sleep duration interactions for blood pressure in 811,405 individuals from diverse populations

      Million Veteran Program, Nagarajan, P., Winkler, T. W., Bentley, A. R., Miller, C. L., Kraja, A. T., Schwander, K., Lee, S., Wang, W., Brown, M. R., Morrison, J. L., Giri, A., O’Connell, J. R., Bartz, T. M., de las Fuentes, L., Gudmundsdottir, V., Guo, X., Harris, S. E., Huang, Z. & Kals, M. & 181 others, Kho, M., Lefevre, C., Luan, J., Lyytikäinen, L. P., Mangino, M., Milaneschi, Y., Palmer, N. D., Rao, V., Rauramaa, R., Shen, B., Stadler, S., Sun, Q., Tang, J., Thériault, S., van der Graaf, A., van der Most, P. J., Wang, Y., Weiss, S., Westerman, K. E., Yang, Q., Yasuharu, T., Zhao, W., Zhu, W., Altschul, D., Ansari, M. A. Y., Anugu, P., Argoty-Pantoja, A. D., Arzt, M., Aschard, H., Attia, J. R., Bazzanno, L., Breyer, M. A., Brody, J. A., Cade, B. E., Chen, H. H., Chen, Y. D. I., Chen, Z., de Vries, P. S., Dimitrov, L. M., Do, A., Du, J., Dupont, C. T., Edwards, T. L., Evans, M. K., Faquih, T., Felix, S. B., Fisher-Hoch, S. P., Floyd, J. S., Graff, M., Gu, C., Gu, D., Hairston, K. G., Hanley, A. J., Heid, I. M., Heikkinen, S., Highland, H. M., Hood, M. M., Kähönen, M., Karvonen-Gutierrez, C. A., Kawaguchi, T., Kazuya, S., Kelly, T. N., Komulainen, P., Levy, D., Lin, H. J., Liu, P. Y., Marques-Vidal, P., McCormick, J. B., Mei, H., Meigs, J. B., Menni, C., Nam, K., Nolte, I. M., Pacheco, N. L., Petty, L. E., Polikowsky, H. G., Province, M. A., Psaty, B. M., Raffield, L. M., Raitakari, O. T., Rich, S. S., Riha, R. L., Risch, L., Risch, M., Ruiz-Narvaez, E. A., Scott, R. J., Sitlani, C. M., Smith, J. A., Sofer, T., Teder-Laving, M., Völker, U., Vollenweider, P., Wang, G., Willems van Dijk, K., Wilson, O. D., Xia, R., Yao, J., Young, K. L., Zhang, R., Zhu, X., Below, J. E., Böger, C. A., Conen, D., Cox, S. R., Dörr, M., Feitosa, M. F., Fox, E. R., Franceschini, N., Gharib, S. A., Gudnason, V., Harlow, S. D., He, J., Holliday, E. G., Kutalik, Z., Lakka, T. A., Lawlor, D. A., Lee, S., Lehtimäki, T., Li, C., Liu, C. T., Mägi, R., Matsuda, F., Morrison, A. C., Penninx, B. W. J. H., Peyser, P. A., Rotter, J. I., Snieder, H., Spector, T. D., Wagenknecht, L. E., Wareham, N. J., Zonderman, A. B., North, K. E., Fornage, M., Yen, A. W., Yeh, S. S., Xu, J., Wilson, P., Whooley, M., Whittle, J., Wells, J., Walsh, J., Villareal, G., Tandon, N., Strollo, P., Sriram, P., Smith, R., Sharma, S., Servatius, R., Rai, A. S., Rauchman, M., Potter, E., Poon, S., Petrakis, I., Oursler, K. A., Ong, M. K., Okusaga, O., Norton, J., Naik, E., Murdoch, M., Morgan, T., Morales, P., Moorman, J., Meyer, P., Mattocks, K., Mastorides, S., Marrache, R., Mahan, C. S., Lo, T. S., Lichy, J., Liangpunsakul, S., Liang, P., Landry, M., Kinlay, S., Jhala, D., Jacono, F., Iruvanti, P., Hurley, R., Hogan, D. J., Hamner, M., Harley, J. & Rao, D. C., Aug 2025, In: Molecular Psychiatry. 30, 8, p. 3660-3672 13 p.

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    • A statistical framework for multi-trait rare variant analysis in large-scale whole-genome sequencing studies

      NHLBI Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed) Consortium, Li, X., Chen, H., Selvaraj, M. S., Van Buren, E., Zhou, H., Wang, Y., Sun, R., McCaw, Z. R., Yu, Z., Jiang, M. Z., DiCorpo, D., Gaynor, S. M., Dey, R., Arnett, D. K., Benjamin, E. J., Bis, J. C., Blangero, J., Boerwinkle, E. & Bowden, D. W. & 181 others, Brody, J. A., Cade, B. E., Carson, A. P., Carlson, J. C., Chami, N., Chen, Y. D. I., Curran, J. E., de Vries, P. S., Fornage, M., Franceschini, N., Freedman, B. I., Gu, C., Heard-Costa, N. L., He, J., Hou, L., Hung, Y. J., Irvin, M. R., Kaplan, R. C., Kardia, S. L. R., Kelly, T. N., Konigsberg, I., Kooperberg, C., Kral, B. G., Li, C., Li, Y., Lin, H., Liu, C. T., Loos, R. J. F., Mahaney, M. C., Martin, L. W., Mathias, R. A., Mitchell, B. D., Montasser, M. E., Morrison, A. C., Naseri, T., North, K. E., Palmer, N. D., Peyser, P. A., Psaty, B. M., Redline, S., Reiner, A. P., Rich, S. S., Sitlani, C. M., Smith, J. A., Taylor, K. D., Tiwari, H. K., Vasan, R. S., Viali, S., Wang, Z., Wessel, J., Yanek, L. R., Yu, B., de las Fuentes, L., de Andrade, M., Zoellner, S., Zody, M., Ziv, E., Zhu, X., Zhao, W., Zhao, S. X., Zhang, Y., Zekavat, S. M., Yu, K., Yang, I., Xu, H., Wu, J., Wu, B., Wong, Q., Winterkorn, L., Wilson, J., Wilson, C., Williams, S., Williams, L. K., Williams, K., Willer, C., Weng, L. C., Weiss, S. T., Weir, B., Weinstock, J., Weeks, D. E., Watt, J., Watson, K., Wang, J., Wang, H., Wang, F. F., Walts, A., Wallace, R., Walker, T., Vrieze, S., VandeHaar, P., Van Den Berg, D., Vaidya, D., Tsai, M., Tracy, R., Tong, C., Tishkoff, S., Tirschwell, D., Tinker, L., Threlkeld, M., Thornton, T. A., Telen, M., Taylor, S., Taylor, M., Taub, M., Tang, H., Taliun, D., Sériès, F., Szpiro, A., Sylvia, J., Sung, Y. J., Su, J. L., Streeten, E., Storm, G., Stilp, A. M., Sotoodehnia, N., Sofer, T., Snyder, M., Snively, B., Smoller, S., Smith, T., Smith, N., Smith, J., Smith, A. V., Skomro, R., Silverman, E., Silver, B., Shoemaker, M. B., Sheu, W. H. H., Shetty, A., Shetty, A., Sherman, S. L., Sheehan, V., Seidman, J., Seidman, C., Sciurba, F., Schwartz, D., Schwander, K., Santibanez, J., Sankaran, V. G., Sandow, K., Salzberg, S., Salvi, S., Salimi, S., Saleheen, D., Sabino, E. C., Ryan, K., Ruuska, S., Russell, P., Runnels, A., Ruczinski, I., Roselli, C., Dan Roden, R., Robine, N., Robillard, R., Sefuiva Reupena, M., Regan, E., Reeves, C., Reed, R., Ratan, A., Rasmussen-Torvik, L., Rao, D. C., Rajendran, M., Rafaels, N., Qin, Z., Qiao, D., Qasba, P., Preuss, M., Boorgula, M. P., Becker, J. P., Post, W., Pollin, T., Pleiness, J., Phillips, L. S., Peters, U., Perry, J., Perez, M., Peralta, J. M., Parker, C., Papanicolaou, G., Fulton, L. & Dutcher, S. K., Feb 2025, In: Nature Computational Science. 5, 2, p. 125-143 19 p.

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